Top 518 Proposition Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 16, 2025.
I firmly believe that life is an 'and' proposition and not an 'or' one. If you really love something, you just have to try it. The worse that can happen is that you'll be told 'no.'
If you make every game a life and death proposition, you're going to have problems. For one thing, you'll be dead a lot.
A theorem is a proposition which is a strict logical consequence of certain definitions and other propositions.
You make an open-ended proposition and the audience completes it somehow. That’s what you hope an artwork to be-a constantly living thing.
You know, I have never had a casting couch proposition in my life. I thought there was something wrong with me.
We've got a great value proposition against Chromebooks, we are not ceding the market to anyone.
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
This may be the most important proposition revealed by history: At the time, no one knew what was coming.
We can no longer assert any single proposition, unless we guard ourselves by enumerating countless conditions which must be assumed.
One of the worst of errors would be the general admission of the proposition that a Government has no right to interfere for any purpose except for that of affording protection.
If you ask Americans whether they've been successful at sealing the border with Mexico, they'll tell you that it's a very difficult proposition.
Ice-skating is a dangerous proposition and tennis is going to be something I'm probably not very good at.
What's wrong with my proposition?" Poirot rose. "If you will forgive me for being personal-I do not like your face, M. Ratchett.
We say that a sentence is factually significant to any given person, if, and only if, he knows how to verify the proposition which it purports to express.
The Republican Party and the conservative movement cannot unify around a single proposition, and the Democrats easily do. They have total contempt for us.
Faith is the assent to any proposition not made out by the deduction of reason but upon the credit of the proposer.
Gun Owners of America is a lobby group dedicated to the proposition that the National Rifle Association is a bunch of accommodationist sissies.
I'm very proud that we stood for the proposition that no man, woman or child should ever have to live in tyranny. We believed in democracy and promoted it.
It is wrong for a man to say that he is certain of the objective truth of any proposition unless he can produce evidence which logically justifies that certainty.
I am led to the proposition that there is no fiction or nonfiction as we commonly understand the distinction: there is only narrative.
I expect to fight that proposition until hell freezes over. Then I propose to start fighting on the ice.
I would put forward a modest proposition that we were very much better governed by Henry VIII than we are by King Gordon.
The California proposition [Prop. 187] is one I would agree with. That's the easiest way to put it.
Small businesses are a risky proposition, and most celebrities want a home run.
We must be willing to be guided of God, not merely now and then, but as a life proposition.
You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.
I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.
When you exist in the centre of a debate, as a topic, a hypothesis - otherised and stigmatised - you become the prop in a proposition.
President-elect Biden is committed to the proposition that Iran will not acquire a nuclear weapon.
I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.
The Broad research center represents the highest quality model of what Proposition 71 should be funding.
The long-term value proposition for cellphone companies isn't just voice conversation - it's transfer of data.
Situationism is a ludicrous proposition. It's ill-formed and it's perfectly French. That Gallic disposition towards common sense. L'Anarchie!
When I go to vote for anything, I always pencil in the proposition to return California and Texas to Mexico. I'm the one person that's voting for that one.
After Obama was elected president, the same day Proposition 8 was passed, there was this fire in our belly.
All myth is an enriched pattern, a two-faced proposition, allowing its operator to say one thing and mean another, to lead a double life.
In short, the proposition that God was in any way involved in our creation is effectively outlawed, and implicitly negated.
That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.
One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.
Surely the experience of all good men confirms the proposition that without a due measure of private devotions the soul will grow lean.
The graphic emphasis placed on those first lines is rather hard to square with the proposition that the monument expresses no particular religious preference.
We should be evolving into a new age of business with a worldview that maintains one simple proposition - that all of nature: humans, animals, earth, are interconnected and interdependent.
[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting.
In fact I thought life was pretty much a losing proposition, and I didn't mind saying so.
I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.
I'm always very stressed about making a new proposition every season. But in a way, it's a kind of addiction.
One of the things that's consistent, if you speak to hotel owners or customers across the world, is that the proposition of Oyo is very valuable for each one of them.
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.
I'm just happy to have some American readers - enough that it's a viable proposition for my books to appear there.
Transmission of documents via telephone wires is possible in principle, but the apparatus required is so expensive that it will never become a practical proposition.
The proposition that the meek (that is the adaptable and serviceable), inherit the earth is not merely a wishful sentiment of religion, but an iron law of evolution.
Microcredit has shown how you can reach out to people that conventional banking cannot. It has demonstrated that it's a doable proposition.
Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all.
Comparing how you feel on the inside (bad) to the way someone else looks on the outside (great) is a losing proposition. It's an impossible standard.
On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks.
Love is seldom—almost never—an even proposition. Someone always loves more.
Lola Montes is, in my unhumble opinion, the greatest film of all time, and I am willing to stake my critical reputation, such as it is, on this one proposition above all others.
If you're one car accident away from poverty, you're on a high wire without a safety net. And that's a challenging proposition.
That some good can be derived from every event is a better proposition than that everything happens for the best, which it assuredly does not.
